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A publication of UWM's Center for International
Education, Global Passport
provides up-to-date information on
international education programs, opportunities, and resources,
including those offered by
Accommodation of Persons with Special
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IWA : Global Issues Fall Series
All Institute of World Affairs programs will be convened in
the evening, with venues and program times to be announced.
As with so many political issues in the U.S., foreign policy has become so polarized that it is difficult to have a constructive dialogue. This panel will explore questions such as: What values do we want our foreign policy to serve? What do we, as Americans, want from our foreign policy? Even if finding common ground proves elusive, IWA hopes to model a respectful conversation where people can disagree without being disagreeable and learn from each other.
Discussion Group – The Foreign Policy Center -- November 10, 2004, Noon – 1 PM:
Information: For more information about individual
programs, or to register, please call 414-229-3220 or send an e-mail message to:
iwa@uwm.edu.
The conference will include major keynote addresses by internationally renowned speakers and numerous small-group workshop and paper presentation sessions. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations. If you are unable to attend the conference, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for the first round call for papers is October 15 2004. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an
online call for papers form, are to be found on the conference website: http://www.Diversity-Conference.com.
Latino Arts Gallery
1028 S. 9th Street
Milwaukee
414-384-3100
http://www.latinoartsinc.org
Award winning children's book author and photographer, Ancona shares his pictorial stories of his Mexican heritage and life in different cultures. The exhibit will showcase the creative and heartfelt photos of Ancona including those that depict the traditions of Day of the Dead. In addition, local and regional artists will display their ofrendas, or alters, that honor and celebrate the lives of the deceased.
George Ancona is a well-regarded and highly prolific writer and photographer who has published over 100 books for children. Perhaps because of his own Mexican heritage, Ancona has produced an incredible range of titles set in the Americas, including: Harvest, Cuban Kids, Carnaval, Fiesta Fireworks, Barrio: Jose’s Neighborhood, Mayeros: A Yucatec Maya Family, Charro: The Mexican Cowboy, The Piñata Maker, Fiesta USA, and Pablo Remembers: The Fiesta of the Day of the Dead. As readers of his work know, Ancona vividly conveys the worlds of diverse children whose daily lives reflect culturally rich heritages.
Exhibit sponsored by Latino Arts, Inc, with
additional support from the UWM Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
a Title VI National Resource Center.
One of the contemporary playwrights featured by the "Playing French Festival" this fall, the first theater festival of its kind in Chicago, http://www.playingfrench.org
Marc Israël-Le Pelletier has had a truly international career in the theater. He was born in France where he studied Fine Arts at the Arts Décoratifs and Beaux-arts in Paris, as well as Anthropology and Cinema at the Sorbonne. In the late seventies, he completed his studies at Columbia University in New York and majored in the Arts. In 1987 he moved to New York where he lived for ten years and attended the HB Studio, taking courses in directing and playwriting. Since 1995 he has written some twenty plays, which have been translated into several languages and staged in France, the US, Canada, and Germany. Marc moved to Montreal in 1998 where he now lives which his wife and their young daughter, Jade. He is also a documentary film-maker, an artist and a photographer. He will speak and answer questions -- in English or French - on his transatlantic experience as playwright.
http://www.lesfrancophonies.com/PAGES/maison/AUTEURS%202002/ISRAEL_LE_PELLETIER.htm
His recent play, Sarah and Lorraine will premiered in English at the "Playing French" Festival in Chicago. By the Storefront Theater, November 7-10, 7:30 PM.
A contemporary look at race and culture in America, Sarah and Lorraine tells the 30-year story of a blind, Polish-Jewish widow, her African-American housekeeper, and the man they shared. For more information, click on http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/events/104341,0,5271870.event
Marc Israël-Le Pelletier's visit to UWM s
co-sponsored by the French Cultural Services in Chicago, the Department of
French, Italian, and Comparative Literature, the Theater Department, the Center
for International Education and the Center for 21st Century Studies.
This program will feature new videos produced by indigenous video makers from the states of Chiapas and Guerrero, Mexico.
The Chiapas Media Project is an award winning, bi-national partnership that provides video equipment, computers and training, enabling marginalized indigenous and campesino communities in Southern Mexico to create their own media. The CMP is currently distributing 20 indigenous produced videos worldwide. Alexandra Halkin, CMP Founding Director will present the program.
For more information: 414-229-4401. For background on the Chiapas Media Project, see: http://www.chiapasmediaproject.org
Cosponsored by the Center for Latin American and
Caribbean Studies (CLACS), the Center for International Education (CIE), and
Peace Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. CLACS and CIE are
National Resource Centers, funded by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI
Program.
This program will introduce parents, college students, teachers and children to literature and curriculum on peace and international issues, including books which have received the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards.
Speakers will include : Dr. Ginny Moore Kruse, coordinator of the Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, Judy Lybeck, UWM Department of Curriculum and Instruction, and Bob Peterson, 5th grade MPS teacher, recently recognized for his elementary school curriculum on "9-11 and Terrorism" by the Smithsonian Institute. The program will include activities for children, grades 3-8, under the direction of art teacher, MingYon Blackwell.
Advanced $5 registration required.
Make check payable to UWM, mail to Yvonne Reyes, c/o CIE, P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201. College students and children are free but must register. Please call 414-229-4252 with any questions. Registration forms can be downloaded from our website: http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE
Golda Meir Library
UW-Milwaukee
4th
Floor Conference Center
2311 East Hartford
Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53201
This program is sponsored by the Center for
International Education at UW-Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Branch of the Women's
International League for Peace & Freedom and the UWM Libraries.
This year's Bazaar will be host to cultural booths and displays from 10 countries, and 3 ethnic musical performances. The Bazaar is free and open to the public; teachers are encouraged to bring students from all grades/levels.
For more information contact Andrea Herbert,
414-229-4252 or aherbert@uwm.edu.
This conference aims to develop an holistic view of sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a multidisciplinary way, across the diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of sustainability.
As well as impressive line up of international main speakers, the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the conference proceedings will be fully peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the new International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. If you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic version of the conference proceedings. The deadline for the first round call for papers is November 15, 2004. Proposals are usually reviewed within four weeks of submission.
Full details of the conference, including an
online call for papers form, are to be found at the conference website.
All films will be in the UWM Union Ballroom.
At the launch of the Participatory Communication
issue of JIC in 2001, the UN Representative in Australia remarked that
the issues covered by JIC are all issues of concern to the United
Nations. JIC covers these issues from a variety of disciplinary and
critical perspectives drawing on scholars drawn from all over the world.
In 2005 the United Nations will celebrate 60 years of international regime
development and management in areas related to security; trade; political,
economic and social development; culture, education and communication; and
environmental protection, to provide a cross-section of the United Nation’s
areas of concern. A quick look at the United Nation’s organizational chart
at http://www.unsystem.org/ shows the
full breadth of governance that the UN engages, even if it is debatable that it
is a world ‘government’ in the sense of the word as applied to the nation state.
JIC proposes a Special Issue to mark the 60th Anniversary of the United
Nations that is not purely celebratory, but one that recognises the United
Nation’s interest in promoting Civil Society throughout the world. The issue
will provide a critical space that will allow international communication
scholars to theorize and analyse the structure, processes and projects of the
United Nations system so that this scholarship may be drawn on by the United
Nations in a year of self-reflection, as it looks forward to its next 60
years.
Papers dealing with any of
the following topics or areas are invited. Of course, the topics could be
combined and there may be additional issues related to these topics that
could be addressed:
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The above topic areas are provided as triggers for the generation of ideas. They are not meant to be exhaustive or exclusionary. If a scholar is working on an area related to the United Nations which is of interest to the multidisciplinary field of International communication, s/he is welcome to send an abstract to Professor Chitty:
Professor Naren Chitty, EditorArticles that are submitted for review should follow the APA style guide and must be double-spaced and no longer than 7500 words. See http://www.mucic.mq.edu.au/jic for style and submission guide. They must be submitted directly to JIC at the address above before December 31, 2004.
The Journal of International Communication
c/o Macquarie University Centre for International Communication DCSMP,
Macquarie University
North Ryde, NSW 2109
AUSTRALIA
naren.chitty@mq.edu.au
The European Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research (AT.IN.E.R.) organizes its third international conference on International and European Political & Economic Affairs, May 26-28, 2005.
The registration fee is €250 (euro), covering access to all sessions, two lunches, one Dinner, coffee breaks and conference material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek Islands and a Greek Night with live music will be organized.
The aim of the conference is to bring together
scholars and students of political and economic studies. Political sessions will
be devoted to Comparative Politics, European Union Politics and Enlargement,
NGO, International Organizations, Intergovernmental Relations, Political
Parties, Democracy, Government (Federal and Local) and Political Ethics.
Economic sessions will be organized in the areas of International Economics
(Trade, International Factor Movements and International Investment),
International
Financial Economics,
Economic Development, Technological Change, Growth, Economic Systems,
Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics, Urban, Rural and Regional
Economics. Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of the
Conference Proceedings.
If you think that you can contribute, please send your abstract (no more than 300 words), via e-mail, before January 3, 2005 to:
Dr. Nicholas Pappas, HeadPlease include: Title of Paper, Full Name (s), Affiliation, Current Position, an e-mail address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission.
Research Unit of European Affairs, Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER)
atiner@atiner.gr
Call for Papers
Since 2000, ISTC has been working to establish an annual
space for open conversations between anyone (scholars, young and old, graduates,
public intellectuals and professionals) wanting to explore ideas, old and new,
introduce new projects and research ideas, and report on completed projects. The
Centres of the Consortium cover social and political theory, historical
sociology, cultural studies, inter-civilizational studies and the Consortium
exists only to promote debate and critical reflection. We invite prospective
participants to send in paper ideas and proposals for panels. As this is the
first ISTC conference to take place outside the Trans-Atlantic axis, we are keen
to receive proposals on Asian perspectives and Asian concerns from people
working in Asian contexts.
We have already received expressions of interest in panels on:
6th ISTC Conference
Department of Sociology
National University of Singapore
11 Arts Link, Singapore 117570
Fax: 65 – 6777 9579
Sponsored by: East West Council for Education, the Asia-Pacific Research Institute of Peking University and the University of Louisville - Center for Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
Web address: http://www.hicsocial.org
Email address: social@hicsocial.org
The 4th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Social Sciences will be held from June 13 (Monday) to June 16 (Thursday), 2005
at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel in Honolulu, Hawaii. The conference
will provide many opportunities for academicians and professionals from social
sciences related fields to interact with members inside and outside their own
particular disciplines.
Topic Areas (All Areas
of Social Sciences are Invited):
Format of Presentations:
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Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences
P.O. Box 75023 Honolulu, HI 96836 USA
Telephone: (808) 946-9932
Fax: (808) 947-2420
E-mail: social@hicsocial.org
Website: http://www.hicsocial.org
For more information on this International Association of Media and Communication Research Conference, please see: http://iamcr2005.shu.edu.tw/basic_info.htm
Certain events, from time to time, shock the world: sometimes into action; sometimes into paralysis. Often, it seems, it is because of the way they are featured in the media. Generally, they are 'bad news' - disaster and conflict. Recall the Chicken Flu sacre in Asia, the SARS epidemic, various terrorist atrocities, the 911 attacks in the USA. Even Janet Jackson's exposure of herself. Twenty five years after observers of the 'active audience' challenged effects theory, the media and their messages seem to reassert their power. And some governments seek to strengthen their controls, whatever the cost to democracy.
Media panics have themselves became the focus of media attention, as well as of scholarly interest. The 2005 IAMCR conference will focus on the topic "Media Panics: Freedom, Control and Democracy in the Age of Globalisation."
At least two theoretical perspectives apply. One is that exaggerated media reports of disasters and violence are either things to be corrected and controlled or as reflective of the culture of our time. Any attempt to curb them is an infringement on our freedom. The other involves the age-old debates that pit social and psychological effects of media against their mass market orientations. How and why have media panics come to be the major concerns of our societies? How do people in different worlds and circumstances respond to this communication phenomenon?
The use of new technology in
communication, the process of news production, the content of media coverage
from opposing perspectives, and the influence of these events on different
audiences and national are some examples. Furthermore, regulation/deregulation
of the global media, empowerment of audience in the development of media
literacy, as well as meanings of the global and local interactions in this
"panic" context are all critical issues to be examined.
Awards will be given partially to defray University-approved travel expenses (transportation, room, board, and conference fees).
Awards will be limited to support for:
The Mongols in World History
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/mongols/
The Asia for Educators Project at
Columbia University has produced a number of important resources for educators
and the general public, and this latest resource serves as a great addition to
the project's archive. This particular resource deals with the role of Mongols
in World History, and covers the period from 1000 to 1500 A.D. With the
assistance of faculty consultant Professor Morris Rossabi, the site is divided
into four primary sections which contain detailed perspectives on major figures
in Mongol history, the pastoral nomadic life of the Mongols, and their
substantial influence on China's Yuan dynasty. Complemented by a selection of
historical images, the short essays offer some important new insights into the
world of the Mongols, including an exploration of the popular misconception that
the Mongols were merely barbaric plunderers. Finally, there are some nice online
readings that may be viewed on the site or downloaded for reading at a later
date.
Forced Migration Online
http://www.forcedmigration.org/
Designed to function as a
comprehensive website that provides access to various resources on forced human
migration, this site is provided through the courtesy of the staff at the
Refugee Studies Centre at the University of Oxford. While the users of this site
will encounter a seamlessly integrated resource, the site contains four separate
components. These elements include a searchable digital library, a searchable
catalogue with descriptions of and links to Internet-based resources, and a
series of geographic and thematic research guides. The homepage offers users
access to all of these resources, along with a sidebar that features relevant
upcoming events as the International Day of Older Persons. The site also affords
visitors access to the full-text of three important publications in the field:
Disasters, Forced Migration Review, and International Migration Review (some
archived journals are several years behind the current issue). It is worth
noting that the homepage also contains a link to a nice introductory essay by
Sean Loughna titled "What is Forced Migration?"
Vietnam War Era Ephemera
Collection
http://content.lib.washington.edu/protestsweb/index.html
The traumatic and unsettled
backdrop of social and cultural change throughout the United States in the late
1960s and early 1970s will not soon be forgotten by any of those persons who
lived through that period. Some groups of people came together under the banner
of the women's liberation movement, and still others surrounded themselves in
the unifying guise of ethnic solidarity and pride, such as those who
participated in the American Indian Movement. No one ongoing event garnered as
much attention, however, as the Vietnam War did. That particular event inspired
a host of posters, handouts, and other printed ephemera that may have quickly
disappeared, as do many pieces of material culture often do. Fortunately, the
University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections division has created this
online archive which brings many of these documents together in one place. The
documents are divided into thematic categories, such as racism, socialism, farm
workers, gay rights, and religion. There are some real compelling documents on
the site, and those with a penchant for social and cultural history will enjoy
this fine collection.
Japan
Society
http://www.japansociety.org
The Japan Society was founded in
New York City in 1907 by a group of businesspeople who were intimately
interested in promoting relations between the United States and Japan. While the
Society experienced a downturn in activities during World War II, the postwar
period saw the Society come under the direction of John D. Rockefeller III, who
was able to vastly expand its programs. Currently, the Society offers a number
of programs, including programs for K-12 educators, a language center, a global
affairs lecture and seminar series, and exhibitions in its gallery. One
particularly nice resource is the mini-site, "Journey Through Japan", which may
be found in the education section. This part of the site is designed
specifically for educators, and includes background readings, lesson plans,
maps, an interactive timeline and a photo gallery. Additionally, visitors can
sign up to receive a number of specialized electronic newsletters sent out by
the Society.
Odden's
Bookmarks
http://oddens.geog.uu.nl/index.php
Created in 1995 by Roelof Oddens, a
curator of the map library at Utrecht University, the Oddens Bookmark database
now contains over 22,000 links about maps, cartography and GIS data. Users can
search the resources by keyword, country, category, or by browsing through
subject headings. Besides the abundance of maps and map data, visitors can find
links to cartography departments, libraries, literature, and societies. Because
the links span the entire world, this website is a great starting point for
anyone interested in maps and mapping.
Shiokadelicious!
http://www.shiokadelicious.com/
"Shiok!" is an exclamation of
enjoyment that comes from the colloquial linguistic tradition of the Malay and
Chinese people in and around the city-state of Singapore. Celebrating the
diverse epicurean traditions of this area is this fine site, created and
maintained by Renee Kho. Designed in the popular weblog format, visitors can
peruse a wide variety of recipes, accompanied by ample photographic evidence of
each dish. Some of the more recent posts from Renee Kho include recipes for
various Chinese sweet soups, the tasty "trash" un-burger burger, and
honey-garlic salmon. For those people looking for specific types of dishes, a
categorized list on the right-hand side of the screen features such categories
as cookies, poultry, and savory pies. Of course, there is ample room for
like-minded individuals to chime in with their own opinions and thoughts on each
entry.
The Kissinger State Department
Telcons
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB135/index.htm
The National Security Archive
released its 135th electronic briefing book on October 1, 2004, and it is one
that will be one of great interest to those with a penchant for United States
foreign relations in the 1970s. This particular electronic briefing book
contains sixteen telcons (transcripted telephone conversations) between
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and other government officials, and such
personages as William F. Buckley and Frank Sinatra. These telcons are only a
small sampling of the 3200 telcons obtained through a Freedom of Information Act
request to the State Department. Some of the rather interesting conversation
transcripts featured here include discussions with William D. Rogers (the
Assistant Secretary on Latin America) on the situation in Chile and other
equally historic phone calls, such as the one that informed Mr. Kissinger that
Saigon had surrendered.
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